Oregon shortstop Maddox Molony belted 15 home runs this year for the Ducks, two in one game in the championship-clinching series with Iowa in May. Last season he set the program record for freshmen with 10, named to the Baseball Writers’ Freshman All-America team.
On Tuesday Molony picked up another honor, earning second team Academic All-American from College Sports Communicators, just the second player in program history to achieve that. He’s a multi-disciplinary science major with 3.88 GPA to go along with his .309 batting average.
Baseball runs deep in his family. His grandfather Ron played catcher and first base for the Ducks in the ’60s. His brother Connor is a star pitcher for the Thurston Colts, just eight miles from PK Park. His father Ryan played at Lane Community College…